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Jan. 16, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 16, 2017, Monday, Hour #3
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Fastest three hours in media.
Here we are already in the third hour of the program today.
And I am your host, the all-knowing, all caring, all sensing, all aware, all feeling Maha Rushy.
And we're at 800-28-22882.
If you want to call.
Oh, really?
You got somebody down there at a loved homeland.
You get you got a call from somebody loved homeland.
The episode last night.
Oh, I didn't read the whole thing.
Oh, I see.
I see good, good, good, good, good.
I was getting into weirded out there for a second.
I didn't read the whole thing.
Anyway, it's Mike and Holiday Florida.
Mike, hang on, we'll come to you here in just uh just a second.
I want one more audio sound by Pete Hegseth was on Fox and Friends Weekend.
He was uh hosting over the weekend, and they were talking about Obama's criticism of me for the lack of partisanship, bipartisanship in Washington, the lack of cooperation, the lack of Republicans helping Obama accomplish his socialist agenda was my fault.
I think, in truth, I should be applauded and credited if I'm indeed responsible for this.
If I'm the reason the Republicans didn't cooperate, give me the Medal of Freedom or whatever it is.
Anyway, Heggseth was on Fox.
He was explaining what this is really all about.
It's a total double standard.
He can bash Fox and Rush all he wants, but when CNN gets one finger pointing after eight years of complete bias, uh suddenly everyone runs to their defense.
I mean, the reality is they're pining for the good old days when Walter Cronkite gave everyone the balance news and it was unbiased, and the New York Times, which is now aptly dubbed the failing New York Times, told us all what to believe.
It's a new media environment.
You can get your media where you want, media outlets compete, and he can't deal with that.
This is correct, I meant what Heggseth is doing is what he's saying here, is the reason they're really upset, is that I came along and busted up their monopoly.
You even hear Obama refer to it.
He says, you know, in the old days, when we all had the same facts and the same uh information, and we could all uh come to a decisions and agreement based on the same set of facts, the same news.
Exactly right.
When it was all what the left thought when it was a monopoly, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, LA Times, you name it, it was all identical.
I had a phrase back then.
If you missed it in the New York Times, no big deal.
Read the Washington Post.
If you missed that, watch CBS.
If you missed that, watch NBC.
And if you missed that, watch ABC.
And if you didn't catch it on ABC, try USA Today.
And if that didn't work, go to the LA Times and just keep going down the list because it was all the same.
They all did the identical news and oftentimes in the same order.
They all had the same take on it.
And this is what the left misses.
They had a monopoly.
And the monopoly began to be under siege on August 1, 1988.
And then talk uh uh Fox News came along in 1997, and they don't have their monopoly anymore.
Have you heard that the Clinton Global Initiative is shutting down?
Now the Clinton Global Initiative is under the umbrella of the Clinton Crime Family Foundation.
They don't actually call it the Crime Family Foundation.
We just throw that in there to be Uber descriptive.
But the Clinton Foundation has as part of it the Clinton Global Initiative.
Now the Clinton Global Initiative was essentially a way for Bill Clinton to attract chicks during the annual United Nations get together in October.
The Clinton Global Initiative happened at the same time.
Usually was the week before, sometimes the week after.
The Clinton Global Initiative was originally established to help resuscitate Bill Clinton's reputation after he left office.
Because, of course, the engraving, if you want to put the engraving on the Clinton presidency, is two words.
Monica Lewinsky.
And so Clinton was trying desperately, and Hillary, too, because she's setting up her own presidential run.
They wanted to do what they could to overcome that and erase it.
So they ostensibly, they ostensibly immersed themselves in charitable good works.
And here came the Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative.
They had meetings.
And they would have they had a big logo there, and they had a big backdrop, said Clinton Global Initiative on it.
And they had a podium and a microphone.
And whenever these grand poops from around the world would show up, the U.N., they'd show up the Clinton Global Initiative and make speeches, and there would be panel discussions and they'd talk about problems.
Nothing was ever done.
It was like Obama's workshops in the White House.
Remember those, his first month in office?
He'd bring in workshops of four or five different groups of people and give them each a corner of the room and solve unemployment or solve climate change or uh solve the problem of fossil fuels.
And they'd work all day, then report to Obama at the end of the day, problem solved.
Of course, nothing had been done but a bunch of people sitting around in the room thinking they're important and that they matter because Obama had them in a work group of the White House.
The Clinton Global Initiative was much the same thing.
And it gave Clinton an excuse to come to New York and go out to dinner every night, and uh, you know, the chick magnet aspect of it happened.
I I witnessed that firsthand.
I witnessed that for I'm not going to tell the story again, but I witnessed it firsthand.
One might say I was even not victimized by it, but I was certainly targeted by it.
Any rate, it's gone.
The Clinton Global Initiative has shut its doors.
Wonder why.
Wonder why.
There were 22 people working there.
They've all been fired.
Do you know the one of the most recent tax returns filed by the Clinton Foundation?
Something along the lines of I don't have the number at the top of my head.
But let's put it this way the amount of money that actually went to charity was like three million.
And travel entertainment and expenses was 125 million or some such thing.
It was all legal.
I mean, you as long as you give away 10% every year of what's in the foundation, you're cool.
Or maybe it's not even that much, maybe five.
But it was clear that the foundation was set up to hustle foreign donors for Hillary's presidential campaign, even collecting this money while she was Secretary of State, which that's what her private email server was all about, by the way, folks.
If you've not heard this, the reason that Hillary Clinton set up an email server in the House rather than use the State Department government network, was she was hustling these donations for the Clinton Foundation and speeches, uh requests for speeches and all of this,
and she didn't want any of that to be discoverable with Freedom of Information Act requests, because she was soliciting donations from foreign governments and foreign individuals on the pretext that she was going to be president someday and would thus be able to uh pay back with policy or consideration or whatever those that had donated.
And the Clinton Global Initiative was an arm of that.
Now it's been shut down.
The Clinton Foundation announced laying off 22 staffers on the Clinton Global Initiative, and it says here keeping with a plan to deal with the negative spotlight put on the organization during Hillary's presidential campaign.
The layoffs will take effect on April 15th, according to a filing with the New York Department of Labor citing the discontinuation of the Clinton Global Initiative.
The move is part of a plan put in motion ahead of the election in order to offset a storm of criticism.
That's not what's going on.
There's no reason for it anymore.
It was never what it if if this was a charitable undertaking, why stop it?
I mean, good works are good works.
Isn't it important if you're really in this for good works?
If you're really in this to be charitable and to help improve the human condition.
So what does it matter?
You lose an election.
You still raise money, you still go out, hurricane, disaster relief or whatever, still plenty of people to fleece, still many opportunities out there to hustle money.
Why give it up?
That's obvious, isn't it?
The whole thing was a shell to set up Hillary's presidency and to get the Clinton some walking around money.
Cash money, as they say, walking around money.
And now that she's not going to be president, any any more on her running for mayor?
Was it mayor or governor?
And there's no more scuttle butt on that.
Okay.
Well, that's cool.
Um 22 people being laid off at the Clinton Global Initiative.
Here is Mike in Holiday, Florida.
Mike, so you watched uh episode one Stevens season six of Homeland last night.
What did you think?
I was I was appalled by it.
Um they they were, to me, it seemed like expecting and wanting Hillary to win.
Even the way her demeanor, and she even appeared to be just like Hillary.
I refuse to watch the show anymore.
I didn't even watch the full episode.
I turned it off.
Oh, how how how soon into it did you turn it off?
Uh I I watched about a half hour of it.
I watched about half of it, but that's the most I think.
Yeah, no, wait, is the only thing that bothered you about it, the fact that the president was a woman.
No, not that she was a woman, but to me, she gave the appearance of Hillary, and I'm just one of those people that are dead since against Hillary.
Wait a minute.
Okay, fine.
But that to me is secondary.
See, the that they have the character of the president.
This this episode, this season rather, of Homeland, season six, takes place between the election and inauguration.
That's the time period of this season.
So that's basically two months.
And obviously, the producers and writers of Homeland thought that Hillary was going to win.
And so in this season of Homeland, the president is a woman, portrayed by a marvelous actress by the name of Elizabeth Marvel.
Um, yeah, she has characteristics, I guess you could say of Hillary.
But that that isn't what struck me about this.
I mean, I can understand these people, I can understand Hollywood thinking Hillary was going to win, and then try to have a series related to that.
But what about what they've done to Carrie Matheson?
Oh, I didn't even think about that.
Uh honestly, from what I saw, I didn't even sit and think about that.
Okay, well, let me put it in perspective for you then.
Since you only watched the first half hour, and it's interesting, if the first half hour was enough for you to maybe punch out and go watch the new Pope.
No, the young Pope, or maybe you go over and watch the affair on Showtime.
That's another show they're having trying.
That's gone off the rails this year, too.
But that's another story.
Anyway.
Homeland focuses on a central character named Carrie Matheson, is a CIA agent.
She also has bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, PMS.
Everything in the world psychologically could be wrong with this woman is.
Falls in love with a terrorist in the first season, uh, terrorist who had been turned into a uh a pro-Islamist in captivity in some Middle Eastern, probably Iran, I'm not sure which, but an al-Qaeda-like organization that was the Damian Lewis character.
He's a great Marine, but he'd been captured, and they brought him back to life, and they saved him and let him take baths and so forth in the hot and humid weather over there.
So he became a Muslim and had secret prayers in his garage with the prayer rug and all that.
Carrie Matheson was out to get the guy.
She was out to get the guy and identify him as a phony, as a fake, as a fraud, ends up falling in love with the guy, they end up having a baby in season three or four, and he gets executed in Iran for whatever.
Anyway, the point is that she is, along with her buddies at the CIA, the number one warrior on the march trying to end militant Islamic terrorism.
She is so devoted to it that even her friends at the CIA think she goes too far in the pursuit.
That they have to rein her in, that they have to fire her.
They have to reassign her because she won't let go of it.
Militant Islamic terrorism, and that's what drives the show or has driven it.
But I'm sorry, spoiler alert coming up.
If you don't want to hear this, if you've got it DVR and you haven't watched it yet.
She now, in season six, the show has returned home to Brooklyn.
Last season was in Berlin.
And she was out chasing bad guys, and she was out chasing militant Islamic terrorists all over.
She had joined a foundation and was trying to wipe the world out of the way.
She has she now works at and maybe runs a center to help people understand Islam and Muslims, and that they are not terrorists, and that they are unfairly categorized and they're unfairly pursued.
In other words, she's done a 180.
Here you have for five seasons this no-holds barred CIA agent destined to uproot every terrorist in the world and expose them and end them, and has now joined forces with people who believe that pursuit is discriminatory and bigoted and racist.
And so now she runs a place or works at a place that actually helps Islamists, militant Islamists and terrorists, be defended against the charge.
And I'm thinking, this is homeland.
What has happened here?
So clearly political correctness and the uh the leftist view of this story finally permeated the writing room at Homeland, and they've taken this agent who's basically now of the belief that the United States of CIA are dead wrong in trying to pursue militant Islamic terrorism, and all they're doing is discriminating against innocent Muslims, and her job is now to defend them.
I said, wow, I wonder how the audience is going to react to this.
And you heard old uh old Mike here.
I mean, it was enough to see the way they portrayed the female president for him and register him.
What happened, the main character of the show.
No, I guess in real life it would be like John Bolton resigning and working for care.
Anyway, here's uh here's Tom in Orlando.
Tom, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
I I wanted to talk about the Washington press corps having Hessifit that they may have to move out of the West Wing to accommodate more Washington media.
Oh, yeah, this is a great, great, great story.
I'm glad you reminded me of this.
I mean, these people live in a bubble.
They got the election wrong.
98% of them supported Hillary and contributed to it.
And all they're doing is doing reporting for Washington, D.C. and New York.
The rest of the company country has no media coverage.
And you know, it's just talk, they just recite Democrat talking points.
I mean, when Bill Clinton is in or Obama, they're cheerleaders.
It's right.
And Obama even assigned seats for his cheerleaders up front so they could have the pom-pom channel.
Well, George Bush is in.
Actually, it's the White House correspondent association that assigned the seats in the White House press room.
But it's up to the president to call on.
But let me explain what's happening here.
There's two elements to this.
The first element is that Sean Spicer, the incoming press secretary, and Reinz Prebis, alluded a couple of weeks ago that they might end the daily press briefing at the White House.
And the media had a collective cow.
They thought it was an attack on them, an assault on them.
You can't do that.
You can't hide from us.
You cannot prevent us from examining you and interrogating you every day.
And they said, no, no, no.
We're just thinking this has been done the same way for so many years, and it's not getting done.
We're thinking of ways to change this.
And the most recent discussion of this is the possibility of closing the current White House press room, which has 49 seats.
There are 49 seats for various media to have.
And the and the Trump people, Sean Spicer and Rheinz Priebus, say, you know what?
That's not enough people.
There's so many more media now than just the newspapers and the networks.
So they're thinking of relocating the press room across the little street there to the old executive office building known in parlance as the OEOB, also known as the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
It is the White House.
It's not, it's on the White House grounds.
It's just a tiny little street separating the West Wing from the OEO.
So they're going to put in there.
They've got a room and they can handle four times that many people in the press, or whatever.
And then Spicer and Rheinz Prebus said, you know what?
We're thinking of letting talk radio hosts have uh press passes and bloggers, because there's all kinds of people that do media now.
And the drive-bys are beside themselves.
They've already seen their news monopoly whacked by me, talk radio, and Fox News.
And now Trump and his gang are talking about letting a bunch of news journalist pretenders in there and granting them equal status with the drive-by's.
And by the way, if you put 400 people in a press room, that's a recipe for Trump to do.
Another rally, not a press conference, which he did a couple press conferences like that.
And they're beside themselves.
They said this is unacceptable.
This is not the way it's been done, and you can't do that to us.
And they're thinking of doing that to them.
Okay, before we get to the dust up, Trump and the CIA, John Brennan, the inspector's general investigation at the Department of Justice and the FBI.
I alluded earlier in the program to a videotape.
I'm sorry, a video taken by number 84, the wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Antonio Brown.
In the Steelers locker room post-game.
Fifteen minute video.
And it was a madhouse in there.
The Steelers beat the Kansas City Chiefs last night at Airhead Stadium.
And this videotape was posted on Antonio Brown's Facebook page, which means it's got massive numbers of views.
In fact, Antonio Brown, while taping the video was being advised of how many uh views the video had, and it was the count was mounting up, and he was excited about it.
We've had a bleep up because uh it's of Mike Tomlin here addressing the team after they beat the Chiefs last night.
And uh what's interesting is that the the Steelers players were told keep it in the locker room.
Don't put anything out there the Patriots could post on their bulletin board.
Don't fire them up, don't motivate them, don't just keep it in-house.
So Antonio Brown is taping what's going on in there, was it's videoing it on his phone.
Tomlin is not seen, but his voice was heard, the head coach addressing the team, and here's a part of it.
He's not pointing the dirty man, not a lot needs to be said.
Let's say very little moving forward.
Let's start off celebration.
22.
So be it.
We'll be ready for the ads.
But you ain't got to tell them.
The chick on it, right?
Keep it low profile.
Let's get ready to ball our fists up again here in a few days, and be right back at it.
Keep a low profile.
Let's get ready to ball our fists up again here in a few days and be right back.
Antonio Brown's putting it out all over Facebook.
And he what Tomlin is saying here is we spotted those rectal orifices a day and a half.
Meaning the Patriots played Saturday, the the Steelers played Sunday night.
So the the Patriots had the oral, the rectal offices had a day and a half head start in preparation on the Steelers.
Um and he was alluding to the fact the Steelers plane would not get back to Pittsburgh till four o'clock in the morning after the game last night.
He said, so be it.
We'll be ready for their ass.
He's telling him, don't, don't just keep it in house, right?
He went headhouse to keep a low profile.
And there's even more.
Here, there's another bite here.
We don't know who this is unidentified person in the locker room, somebody 21.
And it's somebody, while Antonio Brown is actually videoing what's going on, somebody says this to him.
Hey, cool on social media man.
This is about us.
Nobody else.
I wish I could repeat to you what we bleeped.
So somebody in there is telling the players, all right, be cool on social media, man.
This is about us, nobody else.
And somebody else basically says, pssst that.
It might have been Antonio Brown, who knows.
I wonder, I wonder.
You know, Antonio Brown one time, scoring a touchdown at Pittsburgh actually ran to the end zone and jumped on the goalpost.
Remember this?
And straddled the goalpost.
Do you remember that?
And it looked suggestive.
And the media said to Tomlin, are you going to have a talk with him about that?
And Tomlin said, he's a grown man, man.
What am I going to say?
It's a grown man, I can't tell these guys how to behave.
I wonder if Tomlin is going to have a conversation about the video.
The video is just basically Antonio Brown staring in the camera, admiring himself.
And other players coming in at war hooping it up, they're excited.
They've just beat the Jeeps.
And uh and Andy Reed, no timeouts.
You got to make a bet on that.
You could have made a bet, Mr. Sterling, the Chiefs would be out of timeouts with Andy Reid coaching.
You could make that bet.
Yeah, the last half of the fourth quarter.
That's one of the biggest reasons I thought it looked good to win, even though we didn't have any touchdown.
All right.
Bob Woodward, as you know, the dean from Woodward and Bernstein, Watergate, still the go-to journalist on investigative journalism that destroys presidents.
Uh Woodward and Bernstein showed how it's done.
That act, Watergate has inspired every journalist, or practically everybody that's ever gone to journalism school, uh, to show that they could do it too.
Take down powerful people.
Well, this dossier last week that McCain was so eager for sent somebody on a jet across the Atlantic Ocean to the UK to pick up a copy of it, to bring it back and give it to James Comey at the FBI.
This is this thing that alleged that uh that Trump had hired.
Have you heard about this, Rachel?
Trump had hired prostitutes to urinate on a bed that Obama and Michelle had slept in into Ritz Carlton and Moscow.
Uh we found out.
We found out by a way that even Brennan at the CIA and James Clapper, who works for Obama, have both said there's nothing to this.
This is all bogus.
We presented this to Trump as an example of the kind of stuff that's out there that he needs to be aware of.
Trump has said he wouldn't accept, he didn't want a daily briefing on intelligence.
He doesn't need to be told how to open a door every day, so why do I need the same intel every day?
I'm a smart guy, I can figure it out.
And they're trying to tell him you do need a briefing from us every day.
And so this was an example.
They wanted to say, this is why you need to have us brief your day, because this is the kind of stuff that's out there.
Well, McCain and the Democrats and the media tried to make this real.
They tried to sell this as real.
All this golden shower stuff with the prostitutes urinating on Obama's bed, and it's filled with other stuff that's just it's it's been floating around Washington for many, many months, almost a year, and nobody ran with it because none of it's ever been verified until Buzzfeed and CNN decided to unload on it because they're all at their wit's end on destroying Trump.
So Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday brought in Bob Woodward and said this.
What do you think of the way the intelligence community handled that so-called Russian Dossier.
And overall, how do you think the way they've handled Donald Trump?
I think what's underreported here is Trump's point of view on it.
I've lived in this world for 45 years where you get things and people make allegations.
That is a garbage document.
It never should have been presented in as part of an intelligence briefing.
So Trump's right to be upset about that when people make mistakes, they should apologize.
Oh man, this was sobering.
You talk about taking the wind out of the sails of CNN and BuzzFeed and Andrea Mitchell and all the others.
Here's Bob Woodward, who they all want to be.
They all want to be Bob Woodward.
They all want to find out what it's like to be Bob Woodward.
They want to find out what it's like to be considered the greatest star of the Washington Post.
They want to know what it feels like to be able to actually destroy a president and force him from office.
And that guy Bob Woodward is telling them that what they were trafficking in was garbage.
And that it's understandable Trump would be upset about this.
And what's being underreported is Trump's point of view on it.
You talk about a gut punch.
This would be akin to Obama telling the media that I had a point all along.
Well, later on the same show, Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, he had the CIA director, John Brennan, on there.
He said, Mr. Brennan, your response to President elect Trump comparing what you did with this dossier to what was done in Nazi Germany.
It is unsubstantiated reporting that is out there that has been circulating in the private sector and with the media as well by a firm that pulled this information together.
What I do find outrageous is uh equating an intelligence community with Nazi Germany.
I do take great umbrage at that, and there is no basis for Mr. Trump to point fingers at the intelligence community for leaking information that was already available publicly.
No, no, no, no, no.
Trump is right about this, folks, because the thing that differentiated this time was the intelligence community was in on it.
Now, this document's been around for months and months and months, and none of it ever verified, which is why the media, despite their strongest desires to do so, never used it.
But then the intelligence community came along and told everybody they had briefed Trump on it.
And when the intelligence community said that, the news media thought, hey, here's a new hook.
Here's a new angle.
It made it newsworthy.
So Brennan is wrong about this.
I take great umbrage is no basis for Trump to point fingers at the intelligence community for leaking and leak or not.
By giving this thing weight, the media decided to run with it.
Trump is exactly right on this, folks.
And the Brennan, CIA, this is all the establishment.
They're all out to destroy Trump.
Please do not underestimate that.
They are still spitting mad.
They can't believe what has happened here with Trump winning this election.
They're beside themselves, and that's what this Inspector General investigation of Comey.
More on that in just a second.
The IG, Inspector General of the Department of Justice, announced last week an investigation of the whole Clinton problem email.
But it's very select.
It's only of the FBI.
There's no investigation of Loretta Lynch meeting with Clinton on the plane.
There's no investigation of why there was no grand jury, no investigation of why there therefore weren't any subpoenas, no investigation of why the Department of Justice really wasn't interested.
No, there's only an investigation of James Comey in the FBI.
And it's a case study in why Republicans lose.
How they react to things like this.
Andy McCarthy at National Review.
It's so frustrating to observe news coverage of Thursday's announcement of this investigation.
The core of this investigation is Hillary Clinton's email scandal.
As usual, the left understands exactly what they're choreographing.
Beginning with Friday's New York Times page one headline that Comey is the subject of the probe.
As always, The left is setting the parameters of the controversy and the terms by which it'll be discussed.
And as night follows day, Republicans are at sea not knowing quite what's being investigated, precisely because of the way Democrats have teed things up.
The Republicans are hoodwinked into thinking that they have to figure out where to come down on Comey.
In other words, the Democrats are more than halfway home here.
Republicans figure nothing important has really happened yet.
The left knows it already set the table.
By the time the Republicans figure out what's going on, the public's understanding of this will be set in stone.
The charade now underway has nothing to do with determining whether Justice Department protocols were violated.
It has nothing to do with anything to do with the Department of Justice.
The pretext for convening something called an investigation, which sounds like we're looking to identify culprit.
Sounds like the investigation must be nonpartisan, but it isn't.
What's going on here is a battle, which Democrats are hellbent on winning between two competing narratives.
Now that the election is lost, the Democrats see no downside in making the Clinton emails investigation its depositive, dispositive event.
So what this investigation is all about is furthering the narrative that the FBI and Comey cheated and put obstacles in the way of Hillary being nominated, in conjunction with the Russians hacking the election.
And the investigation is said to be targeting those areas.
And the way they accomplished this is by sculpting the Inspector General investigation.
The aim is obvious.
If Comey's statements were against protocol, they'll be portrayed as violations that caused Clinton to lose.
The argument will be that Trump's victory was razor thin as it gets.
Clinton decisively won the popular vote, so surely Comey and the FBI and the Russians are why Hillary lost.
And they're trying to engrave this as the narrative of the 2016 election.
Meanwhile, the Republicans say, hey, you know, we need to get to the bottom of this too.
They want to be seen as cooperative rather than pushing back and correctly identifying this for what it is, an effort to obscure what really happened, and that is that Hillary lost because she was a horrible candidate, and the Democrats were rejected.
Well, another exciting excursion of broadcast excellence, the most energetic, jam-packed radio broadcast known to exist in a free or oppressed worlds is over.
For now.
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